Aside from very young children, the group with the highest rate of injuries are seniors over 85 years of age. Injuries and accidents, falls in particular, are incredibly common and all-too-dangerous for older adults. In this video, we’ll cover the statistics of senior injuries and their cause, including falls, and how to prevent them.
Time Stamps
0:00 Introduction to Senior Injuries and Falls
1:26 Emergency Room visits for Non-Fatal Injuries
2:30 Fall rates vary per state
2:50 Leading causes of accidental deaths by state
3:51 Tips for preventing injuries
An older adult experiences a fall about every single second in the U.S. And for those 65 and older, a single fall doubles the chances of a future fall.
We compiled data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on nonfatal injuries, which includes accidents and intentional injury, as well as accidental injury-related deaths.
The rate of emergency room visits for nonfatal injuries is highest for those 85 and older, followed by those 80-84. This means 1 out of 6 of the oldest seniors had such an ER visit in 2018, the last year for which stats are available.
We examine the cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries, look at which states fare the worst for falls and other injuries, and provide a host of tips to prevent injuries and accidental deaths.
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These common muscle-building mistakes not only delay growth but can also cause injury. After lifting weights it’s very important that you eat the right things and start the recovery process. This video will break through the biggest fitness myths and it’ll help you avoid mistakes that will hold you back.
When you lift weights you break down muscle tissue and that muscle tissue needs to be repaired after the workout in order for it to heal and grow back stronger. Without taking the right steps post workout your muscles are not going to recover properly potentially leading to a loss of mass, a reduction in power output, and a heightened chance of injury. The things that you do during the hours of the day after lifting are truly as important as the workout itself for building muscle and burning fat.
For example one of the worst things you can do after lifting weights is not eating or drinking any kind of nutrients for an extended period of time and this is something that is becoming more common ever since the anabolic window myth was debunked. For a long time, everyone was under the impression that the anabolic window was a sacred short time period after your workout where you needed to take in nutrients immediately, or else you wouldn’t get the gains or benefits from that workout. So people would bring protein powder with them to the gym and then rush to have a protein shake right after their workout out of fear of potentially losing muscle gains. But now that we know that the anabolic window is a myth the pendulum has swung back in the opposite direction, where people think that it doesn’t matter if you don’t eat protein or take a protein shake for hours and hours after you lift weights.
Well, research shows that it actually does matter and that there is a benefit to consuming protein sometime soon after your workout, specifically within the first hour. (15) We can draw from a study published in the journal of strength and conditioning research that found evidence that consuming protein shortly after a workout can help improve strength and muscle growth EVEN if you’re already consuming enough protein throughout the rest of the day.(15) This is because after your workout your muscles are left broken down, and that can lead to a negative nitrogen balance. If you want to build muscle you want to spend more time throughout the day maintaining a positive nitrogen balance so your body always has a pool of amino acids readily available to draw from to repair and build muscle tissue. That’s why you want to have either a high-protein meal or a protein shake as soon as you reasonably can after a workout. Specifically, you want to do this at most, within the first hour after you’re finished lifting weights. This will provide your body the nutrients it needs to boost protein synthesis rates and shift right back over into a positive protein turnover rate. This is especially true if you didn’t eat anything before your workout, by having something soon afterward your body can go from muscle breakdown to muscle growth allowing you to get more benefits from your training session.
Another thing that you want to be really careful with especially after a heavy leg or back lifting session is moving a lot of heavy furniture, Awkward objects, or doing another intense physical activity directly afterward. Again this is especially true when you’re doing heavy sets of exercises like deadlifts or squats during your workout. Even if you perform these exercises with perfect form, if you’re pushing yourself and lifting heavy weight you will exhaust the stabilizer muscles around your core and lower back. If you immediately go on to lift heavy awkward objects, you can be much more susceptible to an injury. And it’s not only heavy objects it can be any kind of intense physical activity immediately after a heavy deadlift or leg session. For example, I completely destroyed my back a few years ago, by tearing up and replacing the turf at my gym after a heavy deadlifting session. (**) Just by bending down over and over again to rip up and lay down new turf my back was wrecked for weeks. So if you’re planning on moving out, or if you have some really difficult physical tasks that you need to get done, make sure you’re not doing it on a day and time that you’re going all out at the gym directly beforehand. It’s much better to choose to take one day off, take it a little easier at the gym, or adjust your workout schedule so that you can have adequate rest, rather than be forced to take weeks off because of a nasty lower back injury.
Now another common mistake with nutrition instead of not eating for hours after your workout is overeating or eating the wrong things afterward. Lifting weights and working out, in general, can make some people feel hungry. This is because exercise Video Rating: / 5
This webinar discusses causes of manual handling strain injuries, body areas at risk, and practical solutions for assessing and controlling hazardous manual tasks.
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This webinar discusses causes of manual handling strain injuries, body areas at risk, and practical solutions for assessing and controlling hazardous manual tasks.
Professor Roger Seheult, MD explains the important role Vitamin D may have in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Dr. Seheult is the lead professor at https://www.medcram.com
Dr. Seheult illustrates how Vitamin D works, summarizes the best available data and clinical trials on vitamin D, and discusses vitamin D dosage recommendations.
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Table of Contents:
00:03 – Injuries In sport
00:09 – Identification on Injury
00:26 –
00:36 – Concussion
01:06 – Fracture
01:39 –
01:56 – Soft Tissue Injuries
02:10 –
03:15 – Sprain
03:28 – Torn Cartilage
03:58 – How to optimise training and avoid injury
04:01 –
04:21 – Training Programme
04:31 – Rules
04:37 – Protective clothing
04:44 – Check Equipment
04:49 – Check Facilities
04:56 – Warm Up/Cool Down Video Rating: / 5
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When doing any activity you run the risk of picking up an injury so injury prevention is an essential routine to become well practiced at in order to minimise the risks you place yourself under whilst enjoying your chosen sport.
Risk Assessment
These can be pretty boring at times but whenever taking on a new activity, especially if it is a challenging one it is important to conduct some form of risk assessment in order to protect yourself and others engaging in the activities.
Injury Prevention
More often than not injury can be prevented. Whether it be before, during or after the activity there is always something you can do. Here are a few examples to give you an idea of the different ways you can prevent injury
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